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I FELT THIS BOOK STARTED OFF LITTLE DRY...BUT GOT BETTER THE LONGER I READ. This is one of the best books written on the native peoples of the Southwest. Childs uses his travels, his inquisitiveness and imagination to write a plausable history of the Anasazi... tracing their exodus from Chaco and the Colorado Plateau south into Mexico. An academic could never leap to the conclusions that Childs postulates, however most archeological papers don't touch the soul. Child's book does. He brings the Anasazi back to life and paints their culture with a colorful brush. I'll never look at an Anasazi ruin in the same way again.
This is an absolutely amazing book. Written like poetry and with the knowledge and insights of a skilled and informed academic, it is wonderful history and a magical journey through time into an incredible culture.
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As an archaeologist this is an exceptional way to look at the connections made by pottery
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A great overview of the southwestern Indians. A lot of evidence but not by an archeoligist. All the books he writes are 1st-hand adventures of his explorations.
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